A Dearborn, Michigan man from Iraq wanted the public to believe President Donald Trump’s “travel ban” killed his mother, but a local Muslim leader is calling him out as a liar.

Mike Hager, who fled Iraq with his family during the Gulf War and settled in the United States, told Fox 2 Detroit Tuesday that a travel ban on several countries with ties to terrorism instituted by President Donald Trump on Friday contributed to his mother’s death while visiting Iraq last weekend.

Hager told the news site he was waiting at the airport to return to Dearborn from Iraq with his family and sick mother on Friday, when he alleges officials told his 75-year-old mother Naimma and family they could not return because they hold green cards, and are not U.S. citizens.

“The immigration told us that the President of the United States put an order right now — you guys cannot go,” Hager said.

Hager, who is a U.S. citizen, claimed his mother died on Saturday while he was on his way back to the U.S.

“I was just shocked. I had to put my mom back on the wheelchair and take her back and call the ambulance and she was very very upset. She knew right there if we send her back to the hospital she’s going to pass away – she’s not going to make it,” Hager said.

“They destroyed us. I went with my family, I came back by myself,” Hager said. “They destroyed our family.”

He placed the blame for his mother’s death directly on Donald Trump.

“I really believe in my heart: if they would have let us in, my mom – she would have made it and she would have been sitting right here next to me,” Hager said. “She’s gone because of him.”

The situation is among numerous alleged travesties that resulted from Trump’s 90-day ban on travelers from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia to develop more stringent screening procedures. But according to Imam Husham Al-Hussainy, head of the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center in Dearborn, Hager’s mother actually died five days before the ban went into effect, on January 22.

“That’s true. The 22nd of January, his mom died,” Al-Hussainy told Fox 2 Detroit, adding that Hager contacted him on Jan. 19 to explain he was going to Iraq to be with his mother, who was very sick with kidney disease. “She did die but that was a couple of weeks ago – before the ban.”

Al-Hussainy said another Detroit area mosque even held a prayer service to honor Hager’s mother, whom Hagar said has lived in the United States since 1995. Fox 2 Detroit also found a Facebook post from January 22 memorializing Naimma.

Hager has since eluded reporters, but did reply via text message to Fox 2 Detroit to blame ordeal on his alleged medications.

“Since I lost my momi’ve (sic) been on heavy medication – I can’t even sleep,” Hager wrote. “I did not make anything up.”

Al-Hussainy, meanwhile, defended Trump’s travel ban as a necessity to combat terrorism.

“There is confusion,” said Al-Hussainy, who voted for Trump. “There is a mix that they have to distinguish between good refugees and bad refugees and if this is what it takes to stop them for a while, to screen them, that’s fine for the security of the country.”